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Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. [2] [3] It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. The boldly striped black and white wing pattern is aposematic, warning off predators.
Zebra longwing (state butterfly) Heliconius charitonius: 1996 [13] Georgia: European honey bee (state insect) Apis mellifera: 1975 [14] Eastern tiger swallowtail (state butterfly) Papilio glaucus: 1988 [15] Hawaii: Kamehameha butterfly: Vanessa tameamea: 2009 [16] Idaho: Monarch butterfly: Danaus plexippus: 1992 [17] Illinois: Monarch butterfly ...
Heliconius comprises a colorful and widespread genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly known as the longwings or heliconians.This genus is distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the New World, from South America as far north as the southern United States.
The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). They can be divided into 45–50 genera and were sometimes treated as a separate family Heliconiidae within the Papilionoidea .
Heliconius atthis, the false zebra longwing or Atthis longwing, is a species of Heliconius butterfly. It is endemic to western Ecuador and the Tumbes National Reserve in Northern Peru. [1] Is a mimic of the zebra longwing (Heliconius charithonia).
The Sara longwing (Heliconius sara) is a species of neotropical heliconiid butterfly found from Mexico to the Amazon Basin and southern Brazil. It is a colourful species: the dorsal wing surface is black with a large medial patch of metallic blue that is framed by two bands of white on the forewings.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Mexican heliconian or mountain longwing, is a heliconiid butterfly.
The combined efforts of generations of resident and visiting naturalists have helped to make the butterfly fauna of Tobago well known. Some 129 species have been recorded on the island of Tobago that has a land area of only 300 km 2 (116 mi 2 ) and is approximately 42 km long and 10 km wide.